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Chamaelirium
Sign in to saveChamaelirium is a genus of flowering plants containing the single species Chamaelirium luteum, commonly known as blazing-star, '''devil's bit, false unicorn, fairy wand, and helonias'''. It is a perennial herb native to the eastern United States. It can be found in a variety of habitats, including wet meadows and deciduous woodlands.
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to Chamaelirium, and connects out to rhizome, North America and plant.
It sits within the topics Dioecious plants, Flora of Illinois and Flora of Ontario.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 94
- With media
- 59
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Collections
- CAS, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, ETSU, BRIT
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Melanthiaceae
- Image
- Chamaelirium luteum - false unicorn - desc-flowering heads closed.jpg
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- taxon name
- Chamaelirium
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Chamaelirium
- Commons category
- Chamaelirium
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Chamaelirium is a genus of flowering plants containing the single species Chamaelirium luteum, commonly known as blazing-star, '''devil's bit, false unicorn, fairy wand, and helonias'. It is a perennial herb native to the eastern United States. It can be found in a variety of habitats, including wet meadows and deciduous woodlands.
Chamaelirium luteum has a basal rosette of around six 8–15 cm leaves, from which a single spike-like raceme inflorescence (1–1.5 cm diameter, 8–30 cm length) emerges. The plants are generally dioecious, with male-biased gender ratios in a given population. This is due to higher mortality of female plants, and the tendency of female plants to flower less frequently. Female stalks tend to be taller, giving a total maximum plant height of about 1.2 m, but also tend to have about ten times fewer flowers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chamaelirium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.